Pariah said:
Nagasaki and Hiroshima ended up saving more lives then they took away. I don't find that we have to justify the destruction of those cities. If it wasn't for the deterrent fear inspired by those bombings, The world would probably still be at war.

I said:

That is entirely debatable. many people saw it then and now as a way to bully the Soviets-the Japanese were pretty much done by then.